{"id":19,"date":"2018-11-12T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T09:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2025-11-13T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T12:53:16","slug":"learning-for-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Learning for Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Aims<\/h3>\n<p>According to Education Scotland (2018)\u00a0&#8220;Learning for sustainability (LfS) is an approach to learning, life and work.\u00a0 It enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to build a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All learners have an entitlement to learning for sustainability.\u00a0 In Glasgow Early Years we use\u00a0the Growing Good Citizens\u00a0toolkit to enable us to self evaluate and gain recognition through a Growing Good Citizens award:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2019\/12\/12113535\/growing-good-citz-recognition-toolkit.docx\">\u00a0Growing Good Citizens Toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>COP26<\/h3>\n<p>With the upcoming COP26 conference being hosted in Glasgow this year (1st &#8211; 12th Nov 2021) a resource has been devised to support practitioners in engaging young children with the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 13: Climate Action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2021\/05\/09214840\/FINAL-COP-26-Initial-Planners-Early-Level-1-2.pdf\">Framework for Learning and Teaching; COP26 &#8211; Early Level<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2021\/05\/14093941\/COP-26-resource-Launch-EYs-1-1.pdf\">Early Level Launch Webinar<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Sustainable Development Goals<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2019\/12\/13143504\/the-global-goals-grid-color.pdf\">The Global Goals Grid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2020\/02\/04155248\/Pack_of_Actions.pdf\">The Goodlife Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2020\/02\/04155405\/Book-List-to-support-Learning-for-Sustainability.docx\">Book list to support Learning for Sustainability (collated from Scottish Book Trust website)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Children&#8217;s Rights<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2019\/12\/13150541\/childrensRights.pdf\">Children&#8217;s Rights GCC Poster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2020\/02\/17202737\/Possible-books-for-childrens-rights.docx\">Book list to support Children&#8217;s Rights (collated from Scottish Booktrust website)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Equitable Approaches<\/h3>\n<p><a style=\"color: #41a62a\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2025\/11\/13094645\/Slides-Promoting-Equity-and-Reducing-Gender-Gender-Stereotypes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Promoting Equity and Reducing Gender Stereotypes<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Additional Resources<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Education Scotland:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/self-evaluation\/Whole%20school%20and%20community%20approach%20to%20learning%20for%20sustainability%20(LfS)%20-%20Self-evaluation%20and%20improvement%20framework\">Whole Community Approach documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/uploads\/sites\/7271\/2019\/12\/12114701\/Vision-2030.pdf\">Vision 2030+<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aims According to Education Scotland (2018)\u00a0&#8220;Learning for sustainability (LfS) is an approach to learning, life and work.\u00a0 It enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to build a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society&#8221;. All learners have an entitlement to learning for sustainability.\u00a0 In Glasgow Early Years we use\u00a0the Growing Good Citizens\u00a0toolkit to enable us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/?page_id=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Learning for Sustainability<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10561,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccleadersofearlylearning\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}